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There will be fewer and fewer of what Virginia Woolf called “moments of being,” intense sensations that stand apart from the “cotton wool of daily life.”
In the future, not getting any imagery or story line or content is going to be the equivalent of silence because people are so filled up now with streaming video,” said Ed Schlossberg, the artist, author and designer who runs ESI Design. “Paying attention to anything will be the missing commodity in future life. You think you’ll miss nothing, but you’ll probably miss everything.”
Schlossberg said that, for a long time, art provided the boundary for silence, “but now art, in some cases, is so distracting and intense and faceted, it’s hard to step into a moment. Especially when you’re always carrying a microcamera and a screen all the time, both recording and playing back constantly rather than allowing moments of composition and stillness when your brain can go into a reverie.” (…)
[Michel Hazanavicius]: “I compare it to the zero in mathematics. People think it’s nothing, but actually it’s not. It can be very powerful.”
— Maureen Dowd, Silence Is Golden, NYT, Dec 6, 2011. (Picture: Illustration of silence) See also: ☞ William Deresiewicz on solitude
